From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 9 09:50:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A83216A4CE for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2004 09:50:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from idesigns.net (idesigns.net [209.239.38.159]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDB9843D2D for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2004 09:50:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from software@schmittnet.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ct-seymour2d-19.wtrbct.adelphia.net [68.71.172.19]) by idesigns.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i999oUTu027469 for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2004 05:50:32 -0400 Message-ID: <4167B46A.2090803@schmittnet.com> Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 05:50:34 -0400 From: "Bill Schmitt (SW)" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (Windows/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Gnome Package X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 09:50:33 -0000 I've been getting my feet wet with FreeBSD. I have a package/ports question that I'm hoping someone can shed some light on. I think the question belongs here rather than on a Gnome list, because it's related to the various types of installations available to FreeBSD, but if I should go over to a Gnome list, please let me know. I've done the installation several times in different ways, beginning with installing everything from a CD I burned from an ISO image (4.9, because I can't get past the boot on later versions, which is a different issue). When I installed Gnome directly from /stand/sysinstall, either from the disk or via FTP, it went relatively quickly. More recently, I decided to look at getting a completely (?) current installation. This is a sandbox system, so I did a minimal installation from formatting the drive on up using FTP as a source, then installed and ran cvsup (without gui) with ports-all configuration. Then I installed portupgrade, did a "pkgdb -F", and then ran "portupgrade -Pra". I installed XFree86 using "pkg_add -r XFree86" and it took a little longer than when I had installed if from sysinstall, but it didn't seem like a lot. Then I executed "pkg_add -r gnome2". 24 hours later, it's still running. I'm not super-concerned, but I'm trying to understand what the differences are between the original, from the CD, installation and this one. It's a slow machine (300MHz Pentium 2) so I don't expect stellar performance, but it seems rather long.